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Category Archives: Stonework
Cantilevered Bench in Board Formed Concrete
This board formed concrete kneewall features a built in cantilevered bench, made possible through a carefully engineered core steel reinforcement. Board formed concrete is produced by pouring concrete into a form constructed with rough sawn wood boards, which leave their … Continue reading
Tory Row Puddingstone Patio
As part of a Tory Row, Cambridge home renovation, S+H Landscape & Sitework Division installed an outdoor kitchen and pool. The stonework for the surrounding stone walls and patios involved masonry restoration of the original stonework, using Roxbury Puddingstone, found only … Continue reading
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Tagged Massachusetts, Stone Masons
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Restoration of Brownstone Lintel Details
Brownstone is a soft sandstone from Connecticut which is famously in use throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for building stone and has, ever since installation, rapidly deteriorated from the freeze thaw cycle. It is probable that it was an unwise material … Continue reading
Specific Instructions for Unique “Beehive” Masonry Pizza Oven Design
As you may know, we love to hear about technical innovations in the service of producing more and better masonry pizza ovens. From Florida, we just received a detailed account of the process of building an outdoor beehive shaped masonry … Continue reading
Stone Tower of Pizza Oven Cooks to Perfection.
They say there is another tower of Pizza in Italy, but it leans badly and it doesn’t even come close to cooking as good a pizza as this fourteen foot tall free standing, outdoor pizza oven. A technical achievement, this … Continue reading
The Great Stone Retaining Wall of Onteora
Like other more familiar great walls, this stone veneered retaining wall required a degree of engineering to ensure that it fills its purpose. 500 feet long and up to 16 feet high, this wall holds back a massive amount … Continue reading
Colonial Cut Stone Center Chimney Dismantled and Installed.
Colonial era cut stone center chimneys are relatively common in southern New England. The stonework there is generally superior to that found points north, where chimneys are mostly out of brick. The hearth is literally the center and “focus” (Latin … Continue reading
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Tagged Connecticut, Fireplaces, Massachusetts
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Egyptian Monuments in Vermont Marble
During the nineteenth century, Egyptian imagery was widely adopted in the US for stone monuments, public and private. Visit any old settler graveyard, and at a certain point, it sprouts a forest of obelisks. Here is a fairly early example … Continue reading
Documentation Assures that Rough Stone Entrances are Reassembled Exactly Like Original
In 1933, Rockefeller Hall was built by the National Park Service in Acadia National Park in Maine. The style is a neo-French Provincial and features seven unprotected stone entrances, all with stairs and landings. Such structures may fare well in … Continue reading
Repair Portland Cement Damage to Colonial Chimney Brickwork
A little over a century ago, portland cement mortar began to supercede pure lime mortar until the latter has become widely unavailable, even for repairs. Florentine Renaissance Masonry of Salem, Massachusetts shows how previous attempts at restoration using portland cement … Continue reading
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